🌎 A major shift in bond markets, where investor are rapidly scaling back expectations for interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve over the next year and a half.
📊The catalyst behind the shift
A sequence of weeker economic reports has fundamentally altered the market's rate projections:
✍🏼Weak Consumer Demand:U.S. retail sales fell 0.6% month-over-month in July, hitting their worst contraction since May of last year and drastically undershooting projections of a 0.1% increase.
✍🏼Cooling Labour Market: Below expectations employment data on Aug 7 signaled that aggressive policy tightening could trigger a harsher economic slowdown.
✍🏼Benign Inflation Data: Moderating consumer and producer price gauges have lessend immediate urgency for a rate hike at upcoming Fed policy meetings.
#TradersCutFedRateHikeBetsBeforeMid2027
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📊The catalyst behind the shift
A sequence of weeker economic reports has fundamentally altered the market's rate projections:
✍🏼Weak Consumer Demand:U.S. retail sales fell 0.6% month-over-month in July, hitting their worst contraction since May of last year and drastically undershooting projections of a 0.1% increase.
✍🏼Cooling Labour Market: Below expectations employment data on Aug 7 signaled that aggressive policy tightening could trigger a harsher economic slowdown.
✍🏼Benign Inflation Data: Moderating consumer and producer price gauges have lessend immediate urgency for a rate hike at upcoming Fed policy meetings.
#TradersCutFedRateHikeBetsBeforeMid2027
$BNB
$BTC
$ETH